Tom Strickland and Sam Hamilton are due praise for their excellent summation of wildlife and landscape preservation. It’s refreshing to read about progress in the battle against the threat climate change poses to our nation’s land, fish, wildlife and water. Their mention of today’s sportsmen, be they hunters, fishermen, etc., indicates a well-thought-out inclusion of this sometimes neglected segment of our population. Although I am no longer an active hunter, I don’t deny the responsible hunter his contribution to wildlife management via applicable sales taxes, fees, etc. I’ve often recommended the purchase of habitat stamps by non-hunters as a means of supporting wildlife preservation.

As the authors stated, climate change is a problem bigger than any agency or organization can address individually and will require the teamwork and cooperation of all parties. Keep up the good work, gentlemen.

James H. Richardson, Aurora

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Tackling climate change, formally known as global warming, is an useless exercise for which the federal government thrives. Tom Strickland and Sam Hamilton described how they are wasting U.S Fish and Wildlife Service resources on “helping fish, plants, and animals adapt to climate change.”

It is important to note that the climate is always changing; in fact, less than 15,000 years ago, Chicago and the much of the upper Midwest were covered by a continental ice sheet. The ice is gone — now that is climate change. The animals survived, the plants survived or adapted and man has prospered.

Spending all this time and money on preventing climate change is like spitting against the wind. Yes, we should be good to Mother Earth, but let’s not be ridiculous with cap and trade and all of the other “new energy” nonsense.

Melvin Glerup, Highlands Ranch

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In Tom Strickland and Sam Hamilton’s cleverly disguised justification for more land use to be restricted to pedestrians and bird watchers, they actually claim that “hunters, anglers and explorers of the outdoors” have sounded the alarm on global warming and its destruction of the very lands they would desire to use.

Hmmm, I’m not sure hunters and anglers would even remotely agree with the government — which is in cahoots with radical environmentalists — putting even more than the present millions and millions of acres we already have off limits.

And as one of the “explorers of the outdoors,” I most certainly am not interested in further restrictions to our already onerous restrictions regarding access to the outdoors.

Steve Harmening, Centennial

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Your article makes the point that most people don’t believe they are overweight when in reality they are. I’m not downplaying the need for controlling one’s diet and fitness; however, the use of the “body mass index” (BMI) as a guide to determining “overweightness” is a joke.

I am 6-foot-2 and weigh 220 pounds, played a lot of sports in my youth, work out regularly and am in much better shape than most people. According to the BMI calculator, I’m borderline obese.

Don’t believe me? The following Denver area athletes are overweight, too, according to the BMI calculator (a BMI of greater than 25 is overweight, and greater than 30 is obese).

* Champ Bailey, Broncos (BMI 26)

* Peyton Hillis, Broncos (30.8 — obese)

* Brandon Marshall, Broncos (28)

* Kyle Orton, Broncos (27.4)

* Ty Lawson, Nuggets (27.2)

* Nene, Nuggets (25.5)

* Kenyon Martin, Nuggets (25.7)

* Chris Stewart, Avalanche (29.3)

* Matt Hendricks, Avalanche (29.2)

* Matt Duchene, Avalanche (27.9)

These were calculated using each team’s official roster. Trust me — these guys are not fat (or obese).

Kirby Johnson, Thornton

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While reading your daily reports of every facet of the Northwest Airlines Flight 188 overshoot story, I am still waiting for the details of the Delta Flight 60 story. For those who missed it, a Delta flight from Brazil to Atlanta landed on the taxiway parallel to the runway on Oct. 20. This event was about as serious a mistake as can be made by a professional pilot.

Taxiways at the busiest airport in the country are rarely unoccupied, and it was a miracle there was not a disaster.

Give us all the stories on the other truly bad pilots, not just the one that Jay Leno includes in his monologue.

Jerry Michals, Aurora

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K.K. DuVivier’s guest commentary highlighted one important element of sustainability. Denver’s new zoning code continues to accommodate solar access through the building form standards applicable throughout the city. These control the height, setback and open space on zone lots, and accommodate differences in context and solar access across the range of Denver’s urban and suburban neighborhoods.

The new code reflects best practices in sustainable development as identified by a study sponsored by the Mayor’s Greenprint Council. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory is analyzing solar access under the proposed and current zoning codes and determined the new code fully supports solar installations capable of meeting power requirements for typical homes.

Denver’s new code is premised entirely on promoting sustainable development in all forms, and thus seeks to balance density, transit, affordable housing and other sustainability considerations, including solar access and the impact of structures on neighboring properties.

Stephen Kaplan and Diane Barrett, Denver

The writers are co-chairs of the Denver Zoning Code Task Force.

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